"Here is how to handle being a feral…" — David Foster Wallace

"Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy."

— David Foster Wallace

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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them… — Thomas Aquinas
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife… — Kristy Hinze
We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the… — Yasmine Galenorn
We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful… — John Zerzan
Words at night were feral things. — Joy Williams
Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your… — Sharyn Alfonsi
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at… — Maureen Corrigan
I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too… — Olivia Colman
I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. — Robbie Coltraine
Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always… — Florence Welch
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it;… — Thomas Pynchon
The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To… — T.H. White

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